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CD Ripping -- what does the encoding "x" number mean?
« on: February 20, 2004, 04:28:54 am »
When MC is encoding, what does the "x" number next to the progress bar refer to?

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Re:CD Ripping -- what does the encoding "x" number mean?
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2004, 07:51:32 am »
Speed.

For example, 2X would mean twice as fast as realtime, so it'd take about 30 minutes for a 60 minute CD.
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Re:CD Ripping -- what does the encoding "x" number mean?
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2004, 04:54:49 am »
Quote from: Matt on February 20, 2004, 07:51:32 am
Speed.

For example, 2X would mean twice as fast as realtime, so it'd take about 30 minutes for a 60 minute CD.

What the number is doing doesn't appear to follow this logic.  The number seems to be specifically dependant on how long the track is -- the longer the track, the lower this number is.  If it was simply a matter of displaying the "realtime" multiplier, the track length shouldn't really matter -- the speed at which a minute of material is encoded shouldn't change just because the overall track length is different.  By this way of thinking, a bunch of short songs should encode much faster than a few long ones, which isn't the case.

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